It isn't often that I actually purchase music. In fact it's almost never. But today I went against all statistical probability and spent money to download/purchase an entire album.

I came across a music video by Fever Ray while browsing a friend's blog. I really enjoyed the clip and the song, which led me to HypeM to look up more tracks. I realized that Fever Ray is a solo project by the singer from The Knife (a favorite band of mine). That intrigued me so I went to Amazon to listen to 30-second clips of the album and read the reviews. One convincing review of praise later I found myself clicking the buy button, and now I'm here encouraging you to do the same.

I'm not much of a music reviewer so instead I'm going to give little sample of Fever Ray so that you can listen, watch, and judge for yourself. If you are already a fan of The Knife then this should be an easy decision for you. Fever Ray is an album that really begs to be listened to on repeat. And if the spirit so moves you, I recommend getting up on your feet and moving side-to-side a bit. I mean, it is dance music, technically.

April 24, 2009

Check out this amazing new commercial for the Gucci fragrance "Flora".

It's directed by Chris Cunningham and the song is Chris' own reworking of the Donna Summers classic "I Feel Love". For more info about the ad check out Dazed Digital's writeup.

I'm currently on a hunt for an mp3 of Chris' amazing re-imagination of the 70s disco classic. When I find it I will be sure to pass it along to y'all. In the meantime here is the original version for those of you who do not know it's amazingness:

I didn't have much to do today and given the amazing weather I decided to take a stroll with my camera in hand. I started in Washington Square and wandered down the Bowery - stopped a bit to read & have a cappuccino - then continued on to Chinatown, Little Italy, Tribeca, S. Broadways, W. Broadway, and all the way up 7th ave to home. It was a most marvelous day.

All the photos in the collage are mine and were taken today during my stroll. Larger versions of each one are on my flickr.

Spring keeps teasing us with this weather but today I decided to risk it with just a T and a windbreaker. Yet when the sun goes down I'm going to have to find myself another layer. I dream of the days when I won't have to do that anymore.

April 09, 2009

A few people have been circulating the video below where this 12 yo kid tells us why he thinks gay marriage is wrong. His reasoning is obviously shallow and heavily biased by his environment. It's clear that he doesn't truly understand why he thinks the way he does. In fact, he seems to be quite conflicted.

"I used to be gay, but then I decided it's wrong and I stopped it. And now I'm very interested in girls."

His video is harmless at best, but what I want to draw your attention to is the following two videos where this poor kid has to deal with all the fallout from the first.

I wonder if his parents have any clue that he is doing this. Poor kid is getting a crash course in being a ridiculed internet meme, kinda like Star Wars kid. I remember I once saw that kid on the Today Show talking about how some kids at his school leaked the video. Apparently he was not at all happy to be the butt of everyone's joke. I say suck it up and get over it.

Fame is hard people, trust me I know ;)

Still kinda sad/pathetic about the gay marriage kid tho.

PS: Can we just talk about how this kid is subscribed to Chris Crocker's channel on YouTube? Guess he didn't fully stop the gay thing...